Assassin’s Creed Origins Recreates Egypt in Fascinating Ways

One of the better features of Assassin’s Creed Origins is to snap photos around the world of Ancient Egypt and share them with friends. While you begin exploring the world and consulting your map to see which outposts and camps you might have missed, you are bound to see a number of photo icons dotting your map. Those are not objective, but simply photos taken by others that you can look at. After spending about a half hour last night looking at a bunch of these photos, I realized one thing: Assassin’s Creed Origins looks fantastic!

Andrien Gbinigie, Product Marketing Manager on Assassin’s Creed Origins, posted the following tweet on Twitter yesterday comparing an actual picture of the Sphinx in Egypt, to the in-game representation. Now, as many historically inept individuals have pointed out, Ubisoft did a pretty terrible job recreating the Sphinx since the one in the picture has no nose, but the one in the game does. A quick history lesson: the Sphinx nose wasn’t broken off the Sphinx until around the 15th century, although some claim it could have been even latter.

https://twitter.com/EscoBlades/status/925073934990626816

Regardless, the Sphinx recreation in Assassin’s Creed Origins is just one of the many interesting observations one can make when traveling the game world of Ancient Egypt. As another example, check out this other tweet from Andrien showing the real world picture of Cleopatra’s Bath (Spring of Juba) in Siwa, as well as the in-game rendering of it.

https://twitter.com/EscoBlades/status/924993766867513345

There is so much more to see in Assassin’s Creed Origins, and the game is available now at retail and via the Playstation Store and Xbox Marketplace! We also have a contest thanks to Ubisoft Canada for a copy of Assassin’s Creed Origins Gold Edition – a 129.99 value! – on the PS4! Check it out below!

Remember, your chance to win #AssassinsCreedOrigins #GoldEdition ends this Friday, thanks to @UbisoftCanada and @GamesReviewscom! https://t.co/ofcbvXV1Rq

— Adam Roffel (@AdamRoffel) October 31, 2017